Barry Alvarez shows off his dance moves after Wisconsin beat Auburn (Video)

After Gary Andersen left for Oregon State, Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez served as interim head coach in the Badgers’ Outback Bowl win over Auburn. He hopes this is the last time he has to strap on the headset in an interim role and he celebrated in the locker room accordingly.

Led by Alvarez, the Badgers went their normal “U-Dub” chant and the 68-year-old Alvarez showed off some hysterical dance moves.

Alvarez was Wisconsin’s head coach from 1990-2005 before retiring to take the athletic director job. He also coached the Badgers in the 2013 Rose Bowl after Bret Bielema left for Arkansas. The Badgers lost that game to Stanford, 20-14, so the win over Auburn had to feel good for Alvarez.

The Badgers finished 11-3 on the season with the win.

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Michigan State overcomes 20-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Baylor in Cotton Bowl

There have been two fourth-quarter 20-point comebacks in college football this season, and now Baylor, who was involved in both, knows what’s it’s like to be on the wrong side.

The Bears coughed up a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter of the Cotton Bowl as Michigan State used a blocked field goal and a touchdown with 17 seconds remaining to secure a 42-41 victory.

Michigan State actually came back from two different 20-point deficits in the second half behind the gritty play of quarterback Connor Cook. Cook, who threw two key interceptions at inopportune moments, rallied his team in the final 12 minutes to what seemed like an improbable victory.

He started the fourth-quarterback comeback with an 8-yard touchdown pass to tight end Josiah Price to cut the score to 41-28. The Spartans then recovered an onside kick to start their next drive on the Michigan State 47 and Cook quickly got the Spartans moving with a 39-yard pass Aaron Burbridge. However, on the next play, Cook was pressured and as he was falling down, he tried to heave the ball toward one of his receivers and it was intercepted and run back 37 yards.

Michigan State’s defense held and Cook was able to regroup and lead the Spartans to a score on the next drive that was capped off with a 1-yard run by Jeremy Langford.

But on the next Baylor possession things appeared to be swinging back in the Bears favor. Quarterback Bryce Petty, who threw for a Cotton Bowl record 550 yards, got into a rhythm and started finding his receivers on slants the Spartans were having trouble covering. Petty’s best pass of the drive came on a 26-yard strike to Corey Coleman who went all the way down to the Michigan State 7-yard line. However, an offensive face mask, a rarely called penalty, was assessed on Coleman’s stiff arm. The drive stalled and the Bears were forced to try a 43-yard field goal.

RJ Williamson blocked the field goal try and it was returned 36 yards to the Baylor 46 setting up what would be the eventual game-winning drive.

Cook was not especially accurate throughout the game, but when his team needed a big play, he made it. He extended the game-winning drive with a 17-yard pass on fourth down. It took Cook three tries, but he found Keith Humphrey in the end zone for the game-winning score. On that final drive, Cook only completed 3-of-8 passes, but the three he completed were all big.

Michigan State sealed the win by sacking Petty twice on the Bears' next possession and then intercepting his final pass.

The combined 83 points marked a Cotton Bowl record as did the combined 1,135 yards. Petty did have a stellar game, but what hampered the Bears was a lack of diversity. They rushed for minus-20 yards.

Four months ago, Baylor erased a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit against TCU to win 61-58 and hand the Horned Frogs their only loss of the season. The victory became one of the hottest talking points at the end of the regular season when the Big 12’s top two teams were jockeying for position in the College Football Playoff standings. That win ultimately propelled the Bears ahead of the Horned Frogs in the final College Football Playoff rankings.

The Big 12 is 1-4 in bowl games so far this season with Kansas State and Oklahoma State yet to play. TCU has the conference’s only victory with a 42-3 thrashing of Ole Miss in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl.

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Wisconsin’s seniors had never won a bowl game. Melvin Gordon made sure that changed.

In his final collegiate game, Gordon, Wisconsin’s record-setting running back, ran for 251 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Badgers to a 34-31 overtime win over Auburn in the Outback Bowl. It was a game where the two teams combined for 956 yards of total offense, but it was Wisconsin’s rushing attack that stole the show.

In addition to Gordon’s huge game, sophomore Corey Clement – Gordon’s likely replacement next season – added 105 yards on 15 carries. In all, the Badgers racked up an Outback Bowl record 400 yards on the ground on 54 carries – a 7.4 yards per run average.

Clement scored on a seven-yard touchdown pass from Joel Stave on Wisconsin’s first drive, but the Badgers really weren’t able to get much going in the first half. In fact, Auburn led 14-7 at halftime. Cameron Artis-Payne scored on a short run, then Nick Marshall, in his final game as Tigers’ quarterback, found Ricardo Louis behind the defense for a 66-yard touchdown.

The third quarter was when the Melvin Gordon show really began.

Gordon’s 25-yard touchdown capped off the Badgers’ first drive of the second half to tie the score 14-14. After a Daniel Carlson 51-yard field goal put Auburn back in front 17-14, Gordon reeled off another highlight-reel run. Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, filling in as interim coach following the departure of Gary Andersen, decided to go for it on a 4th-and-1 from the Badgers’ 47.

Predictably, Stave handed off to Gordon, who exploded through the line, made two men miss and was off into the secondary. He capped off the run with a ferocious stiff arm to an Auburn defender near the goal line as he fell into the end zone. That put the Badgers back in front, 21-17, with 20 seconds left in the third.

It was a back-and-forth affair from then on out with both offenses clicking on all cylinders.

To open the fourth, Auburn ran with Artis-Payne, who ran for 126 yards and two touchdowns and Corey Grant to set up a 20-yard touchdown pass from Marshall to C.J. Uzomah to retake a 24-21 lead. Wisconsin responded quickly. On seven runs, three from Clement, three from Gordon and one by wideout Kenzel Doe on an end around, allowed the Badgers to quickly go back in front 28-24 on Gordon’s third touchdown.

After regaining possession, Auburn was able to gash an exhausted Wisconsin defense again with a 10-play, 71-yard drive to regain a 31-28 lead on an Artis-Payne touchdown run with 2:55 to go.

With a chance to win the game or force overtime, Wisconsin went back to the ground. Runs from Clement and Gordon got the Badgers deep into Auburn territory, but it was the arm of Joel Stave – who had already thrown three interceptions in the game – that got the job done.

First, Stave hit Sam Arneson for a first down on a 4th-and-5 from the Auburn 33. Next he hit Gordon out of the backfield for a short gain and Doe for 10 yards down to the Auburn 11. The drive stalled there and freshman kicker Rafael Gaglianone forced overtime with a 29-yard field goal.

Gaglianone hit from 25 to open overtime and then the Wisconsin defense was able to tighten up, forcing Auburn to try to force a second overtime on another long Carlson kick. Again, Carlson missed and Wisconsin celebrated.

The win gives Wisconsin an 11-3 record to end the season with Paul Chryst coming in to be head coach in 2015.

Auburn drops to 8-5 with the loss. Additionally, the SEC West, considered by many to be the best division in college football, dropped to 2-4 in bowl season.

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For more Auburn news, visit AuburnSports.com.

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